Authors: Romero, Aldemaro; Kannada, Shelly

Source: Canadian Journal of Zoology, Volume 86, Number 1, January 2008 , pp. 80-82(3)

Publisher: NRC Research Press

Abstract:

The second reply by J.W. Higdon (2008. Can. J. Zool. 86: 76-79) criticizes a previously published comment by us of T. Rastogi et al.'s (2004. Can. J. Zool. 82: 1647-1654) paper saying that we presented factual errors, misused key sources, and made a number of omissions. The main objective of our original comment was to show that there had been many other peoples and nations besides the Basques who were engaged in whaling in the North Atlantic for many centuries and, therefore, the Basques could not have been solely responsible for anthropogenic impacts on the populations of large whales in that part of the world. To that end we only sampled some sources to make our point. In this rebuttal, we show that Higdon mischaracterizes our comment as a historical review and that neither he nor B.A. McLeod et al. (2006. Can. J. Zool. 84: 1066-1069) provide any evidence that challenges our fundamental conclusions.

La deuxième réponse de J.W. Higdon (2008. Can. J. Zool. 86: 76-79) critique un commentaire que nous avons publié antérieurement sur un article de T. Rastogi et al. (2004. Can. J. Zool. 82: 1647-1654) lègue que nous avons présenté des erreurs de fait, utilisé des sources importantes à mauvais escient et fait plusieurs omissions. L'objectif principal de notre commentaire initial était de démontrer qu'en plus des basques, il y avait eu de nombreux peuples et pays impliqués dans la chasse à la baleine dans l'Atlantique Nord au cours de plusieurs siècles et qu'en conséquence les basques ne pouvaient pas être tenus les seuls responsables des impacts anthropiques sur les grandes baleines dans cette partie de la planète. À cette fin, nous n'avons échantillonné qu'une partie des sources pour appuyer notre argumentation. Dans notre réfutation des arguments de Higdon, nous montrons que celui-ci a mal caractérisé notre commentaire en y voyant une rétrospective historique et que ni lui ni B.A. McLeod et al. (2006. Can. J. Zool. 84: 1066-1069) n'apportent de données qui mettent en question nos conclusions essentielles.

Document Type: Discussion

Publication date: 2008-01-01

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